This Week in Intertextuality

 So in my last post I left you all on somewhat of a cliffhanger, what did I even think about the Oscar-nominated movie  Train Dreams ? Well I'm here to tell you  My Special Boys  As of writing my last post the only stand out movie that I had seen lately were  Iron Lung  and  Train Dreams , even though  Train Dreams  was technically this week.  I had heard a lot of bad things about  Train Dreams  online. People didn't like the voice over and didn't think it had much going for it, or they thought it had kind of conservative politics. I was dubious then, about what I might think of this movie. Well frankly I needn't have worried, and now I think I'm pretty silly for ever worrying in the first place. People may dislike voice over, but I famously love it. I even love the voice over in  Blade Runner , the all-time most hated voice over ever put to film. Of course I liked the voice over in  Train Dreams , because I enjoy pro...

 My Beautiful Blog At Its Humble Beginning So I am making a blog I've decided.  To explain this decision, for a long time I've been very drawn to the frightening alluring of writing things online. For much of my life I was an avid Twitter user, and when I stepped away from that I became a very avid poster on Tumblr. For a while I had sort of a newsletter that I sent to my friends sometimes. Anyway I suppose these are all just blog adjacent things.  I never really knew what I would do a blog about is part of the problem. This week I watched a lot of movies and I thought, well it's interesting the way these things relate to each other, so I thought that might be a good idea for a blog. I also think it's important for me to really get into writing a lot again. These days I'm too burnt out with university to spend much time writing for myself. I write reviews for a online magazine sometimes but it doesn't exactly keep me in a habit. So instead I'll keep this wee...